OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824078
HIGH WIND,TRUSS,CONSTRUCTION,FALL
Event description
EMPLOYEE FELL FROM ROOF TRUSS
Investigation abstract
AT ABOUT 12:45 ON OCTOBER 15, 1986, THREE EMPLOYEES WERE SETTING ROOF TRUSSES AB OUT 10 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL. THEY HAD SET 36 TRUSSES WHEN A SUDDEN GUST OF WI ND BLEW 33 OF THE TRUSSES DOWN. EMPLOYEE #1, THE FOREMAN, WAS THE ONLY EMPLOYEE TO FALL. THE TRUSSES WERE 44 FEET LONG AND 28 INCHES HIGH AT ONE END AND 37 INCH ES HIGH AT THE OTHER END.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 554
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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